Books Make Great Corporate Gifts

Books Make Great Corporate Gifts

Whether you are in charge of corporate gift giving or just looking for that perfect gift for someone – books make a great corporate gift. In the past many of our books have been given as corporate gifts to clients. Each of our books has won numerous awards in the areas of publishing, printing and of course photography. Each book will be signed by the photographer! We have heard from past companies who have given our books as gifts that their response from their customers has been how much they loved these books and many times the words stunning, beautiful, serene and more were used to describe them.

If you are in charge of finding the perfect Corporate Gift we might just have it for you. We can also provide the entire package for you shipping to each of your customers with gift wrapped books, a card from you included in the package, whatever you require. We’ve done this in the past on an order of over 900 books. But don’t wait much longer it is time to start this process to have them delivered this holiday season!

Just today we had an order for 90 books of The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes, ISBN# 9780975395400. We have also had Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes, ISBN# 9780975395424, and Their Love of Music, ISBN# 9780975395431, been given as gifts or even an award!

Folio - Great Smoky Mountains NP, Richard Mack, photographer

In addition we have in the past had our fine art prints and fine art folio’s used as gifts both for individuals and on the corporate gift giving level. Check out our prints in the shop section of Quiet Light Publishing.

You can contact me by email – just use the contact button above. Look forward to hearing from you!

To see more you can go to www.quietlightpublishing.com

Cheers,

Richard Mack

Quiet Light Publishing – A Busy Start to the Year Already!

The Water by Jill Buckner TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS | ONE VISION

SPEX Art+Vision Show, GSMNP Book Reprinted, Updated Websites, New Prints & Folio’s, Workshop Dates

The Water by Jill Buckner TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS | ONE VISION

It has been a busy year so far in 2013 with the opening of the SPEX Arts+Vision show with Jill Buckner as part of the TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS | ONE VISONproject (www.twophotographers-onevision.com) encompassing our images from Italy and Morocco. When you have roughly 30 images framed for a gallery show it takes a lot of work to edit and print each one before framing and hanging the show. The show will be at the SPEX on Central Street in Evanston through February. If you are in the area you should stop by and check it out. Quiet Light also released several new Folio’s from the work of Steve Azatto, Jill Buckner and Richard Mack. each one has 10-12 small prints and 3-4 signature pages from their work. Each is signed and numbered and are a great choice for those who like collecting photography!

Photographer Richard Mack has brought the vistas and majesty of the Lewis & Clark Trail to life in a magnificent set of 248 color photographs. Richard spent two years visiting key locations along the Lewis & Clark Trail  –  by plane, auto, and on foot  –

In addition, my book Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes is now being reprinted as we will soon be out of stock if we don’t! Part of this process is deciding if there should be any changes before you roll the presses. In this case we had to update the signature page with the updated info, change a Photoshop error on one of the images, and update the current Quiet Light Publishing book list to the final page in the book. We also added four of the best book awards, out of the dozen the book won, to the back of the dust jacket. The book went on press yesterday.

We also released the Quiet Light Workshop schedule for 2013 and updated some of those trips. More on all of that later. Check our websites for the updates. And speaking of websites both the Quiet Light Publishing ( www.quietlightpublishing.com ) and Richard Mack Photography (www.mackphoto.com) websites have been updated with new images and projects!

Award winning photographer Richard Mack is photographing all five of the Great Lakes which hold 20% of the worlds fressh water and 95% of North America's fresh water. This project is an ongoing one which will lead to a book published by Quiet Light Publis

So the year starts off with a bang and next month will be the same as I get back to working on my next book Twenty/Ninety-Five part of the Great Lakes Project (www.quietlightpublishing.com/GLP.php) with a trip to Lake Superior to capture images of the ice and snow. This is a shortened trip from the one I was supposed to make the first three weeks of March. Will feel great to get back to this project! Stay tuned for updates!

Peace,

Richard

 

Folios Allow An Artist to Share – You to Collect

Folio - The Lewis & Clark Trail, Richard Mack, photographer

Folio - The Lewis & Clark Trail, Richard Mack, photographer

As artists we are always looking for ways to show our work to a larger audience, both for the monetary reason and because why you really create art is to share your vision with the world – in addition to the feeling it gives us as we create.

Quiet Light Publishing has released Fine Art Folio’s for each book offered and the work of Jill Buckner and I working as TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS | ONE VISION in Morocco and Italy. Each folio consists of ten to twelve 8 1/2″ x 11″ prints, with a 4 page text signature and is presented in a folder. The image size is roughly 6 1/2″ in width. Each is printed on Epson Hot Press Bright Fine Art Paper using Epson Ultrachrome archival pigment inks to the exacting standards of the photographers. Each folio is signed and numbered by the photographer. Some are presented in both a color and a black & white version. Folio’s are a great value with ten to twelve prints and an artist statement. Each print is suitable for framing.

Small portfolios of work are nothing new. Great photographers have always released prints in small portfolios from Ansel Adams and Walker Evans to Eugene Atget and many others. Often you can buy the entire portfolio or just one print. Because of the price point we have taken you get all 10-12 prints for one low price! A folio is a great way to tell your story about a place or cover an idea you have been exploring. Each photographer chose the best ten to twelve images from a large body of work on each subject to create these intimate Folios. Each body of work then comes from their wish to share these images with you.

To view each one you can go to http://www.quietlightpublishing.com/Folios.php

The Lewis & Clark Trail

Richard Mack, photographer

I spent two and a half years travelling the trail and being in the places the Corps of Discovery were, at the same time of year, in order to give the viewer the feeling of being on the trail with them. This collection of images spans from South Dakota to the Pacific Ocean from my book The Lewis & Clark Trail: American Landscapes. This folio is available in both color and a black & white version.

Richard Mack
2012

Folio - Great Smoky Mountains NP, Richard Mack, photographer

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Richard Mack, photographer

I went to the Smoky Mountains when I first took up photography at 18. I spent thirty years honing my craft in this my favorite park. This collection of ten images show the breadth of my work in a set of images from my book Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes.

Richard Mack
2012

Folio - Their Love of Music, Stephen Azzato, photographer

Their Love of Music

Stephen Azzato, photographer

Stephen Azzato photographed musicians and asked on question – why do you do what you do? “The beauty of this project for me was being able to sit with a huge range of musicians and explore what drew them to their art”, says Azzato. “I was able to hear it in their voices and record it visually in their images”. In the simple quiet of a green room, without the crowds or bandmates or tour managers, Azzato’s photographs transcend the chaos of the stage and the intensity of the studio to reveal the inner spirit that drives each of his subjects. This set of ten images are from his book Their Love of Music.

Stephen Azzato
2012

Two Photographers | One Vision – Morocco

Jill Buckner and Richard Mack, photographers

We were on assignment in Italy and Morocco in the spring of 2012. What may have started as a mild competition became inspirational and synergistic. We were quite excited about the passion and energy that was unleashed. It is rare for two photographers to work together so seamlessly to create a single, cohesive body of work. In most instances we do not know which one of us shot which images. Therefore we both sign every print.

We had only 4 ½ days to discover the treasures of the country. We photographed in Casablanca, Marrakech, and the countryside in between. We explored new areas of the cities as well as the old souks. We discovered that while photography is most certainly an individual process, under the right conditions it also could be a true partnership.

Jill Buckner
Richard Mack
2012

Folio - Tuscany, Jill Buckner & Richard Mack, photographers

Two Photographers | One Vision – Tuscany

Jill Buckner and Richard Mack, photographers

As photographers we see the world each in a different way. We see an image in our mind and decide on a lens, the proper perspective, and depth of field, all in order to create the image we have visualized. It is a process unique to each photographer. It is a way of seeing which comes from inside of you. Yet when you find someone who thinks the way you do about the craft of photography, it is an exhilarating experience. Someone who sees the world in a slightly different way but creates images similar to yours. Such was the case with us. During the six months we shot images together prior to our trip, we often could not tell which of us had taken a particular photograph. We delighted in the fact that traveling with another photographer meant you never had to worry about the hours spent shooting at a single location because you knew the other was happy to shoot, or just wait, while you worked on a set of images.

It was with that mindset we set out across Tuscany, Florence, and Venice, two photographers working together to capture the beauty of Italy in one body of work. In Tuscany we shot for a client who wanted specific images for a project as well as general landscape images that captured the feeling of Tuscany. We also had a few glorious days on our own, shooting scenery that moved us. Images that said to us – Italy.

Jill Buckner
Richard Mack
2012

Two Photographers | One Vision – Venice

Jill Buckner and Richard Mack, photographers

Two photographers, one vision. What may have started as a mild competition became inspirational and synergistic. We were quite excited about the creativity and energy that were unleashed. It is seldom two photographers can work together so seamlessly to create a single, cohesive body of work.

The process of capturing an image is unique to each photographer. Yet our images are strikingly similar. It is an exhilarating experience to find someone who feels the way you do about the craft of photography. Someone whose view of the world is slightly different than yours, but who creates similar photographs. Such was the case with us. We were thrilled to be traveling and shooting together, secure in the knowledge that traveling with another photographer meant you never had to worry about taking hours to shoot at a single location because your partner gets it.

Jill Buckner
Richard Mack
2012

The Price is $125.00 with a Special Introductory Price until March 31, 2013 of only $95.00! The

Discount is automatically applied at checkout.

To see the Folios use this link: Folios on QLP

Enjoy,
Richard

Quiet Light Publishing Website & Shop Have New Work!

Tuscany Hills by Jill Buckner & Richard Mack

This week we have rolled out the new Quiet Light Publishing website and store! On the main page we talk not only about the books we offer from Stephen Azzato, Their Love of Music, or my two books, The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes and Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes, but we talk about new projects in the works and a new photographer, Jill Buckner whose work we carry!

Quiet Light Publishing is pleased to announce that award winning photographer Jill Buckner, based in Atlanta and Chicago, is now part of the talent here with Fine Art Prints available online and a possibility of a book. She has been a commercial photographer for close to 30 years specializing in architectural photography, lifestyle photography for advertising clients and portraits of executives and families across the country. Her fine art work includes beautiful Black & White images of baby parts. She is also an accomplished landscape/cityscape photographer. Her work can be seen in the Quiet Light shop.

Richard Mack & Jill Buckner in Venice.

Jill and I teamed up on two assignments this spring in Italy and Morocco and found it was more than just two assignments but a new project Two Photographers | One Vision. We travelled on assignment to Italy and Morocco to capture the beauty of these places. In Italy we were working for a tourism company and in Morocco on a possible book whose working title is Treasures of Morocco: A Sensual Feast of Color. It is seldom two photographers can work seamlessly together and create one body of work with cohesiveness such as this. We could be blocks apart and yet we knew the type of shot the other was doing so we would not duplicate each other. We honestly do not know which one of us shot which image for the most part. The fine art prints will be signed by both us! An eBook on the project and gallery openings are in the works for Two Photographers | One Vision. See more on the Quiet Light website under Two Photographers. Prints are available from Quiet Light Publishing.

Street in Casablanca by Jill Buckner & Richard Mack, Two Photographers | One Vision project.

I have had to put off the work on the Great Lakes Project, a book in the works detailing all five of the Great Lakes, currently titled Twenty|Ninety-Five: The Great Lakes Landscapes. Yet this fall I am planning to get back to it. It was put off because of injuries I received after being hit by a car in February the day before I planned to hit the road and circle Lake Superior for a winter trip. A long summer not being on that trail. You can see more about it on the Quiet Light Publishing website on the Great Lakes Project page including buying Fine Art Prints from the project in are shop.

View from Grosse Pointe Lighthouse with Moon by Richard Mack, Great Lakes Project.

The Quiet Light Publishing store has undergone a big change with all work now in Categories, such as one for each of the three books, the current project on the Great Lakes and Two Photographers | One Vision. The categories contain anything related to each project specifically from books to prints to notecards.  You can also scroll through areas for Fine Art Prints by Collections. Take a look and let us know what you think!   Time to start thinking of your holiday gift giving!

Cheers,

Richard Mack

Their Love of Music – USA Best Book Awards 2011 Finalist

USA Book News announced the winners of the Best Books 2011 Awards and Their Love of Music, by Stephen Azzato was named one of three finalists for Best Photography Book – People. USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of THE USA “BEST BOOKS 2011” AWARDS on November 1, 2011. Over 500 winners and finalists were announced in over 140 categories covering print, e-books and audio books. Awards were presented for titles published in 2010 and 2011.

Once again Quiet Light Publishing is pleased to have one of our books recognized for its excellence. This is the 17th time Quiet Light Publishing has been acknowledged for our three books.

A big congratulations to Steve Azzato on this great accomplishment and to Richard Mack, and Rich Nickel who worked with Steve on the design of this great book.

Don’t forget Steve and Richard will be signing copies of their award winning books on Friday evening, November 18th at 6:30pm at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Wilmette. Stay tuned for more info on this event!